Doc (Robert David Hall) finds he was repeatedly hit and also a white substance on his forehead which Nick (George Eads) says is usually a substance from sexual contact. Burns had been seen arguing with Jack Oxford Bryan Callan) who was WLVU's largest benefactor and has no qualms of showing this off when he shows Brass his expensive watch which would take him a year's salary to buy. Killing Burns wouldn't be productive. DB heads to Charlie's dorm to tell him of coach's death and finds him with his girlfriend, Vanessa (Italia Ricci). Earlier he and Barbara (Peri Gilpin) were talking about Charlie and she thinks he has a girlfriend. Charlie explains he heard Burns and Oxford arguing together when he went back to the locker room.
Hodges (Wallace Langham) checks out what could have made the various patterns using shoes and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) catches him walking funnily. He's been printing shoes and finds one of the marks was made by a pair of heels. He asks her if she wants to go shopping and Morgan reminds him he'll need to collect Charlie's shoes too and ask DB for permission. Charlie was a suspect but gets favourable treatment, them's the perks being the boss's son.
Henry (Jon Wellner) checks out the DNA and Greg (Eric Szmanda) inundates him from smelly sportsclothes from the locker room. One of the tops has the name 'Fair' on the back and is stained with blood spatter. TJ Fair (Theodore Borders) says he stopped a fight between the coach and someone else and reluctantly lets on it was Charlie. Charlie neglected to mention this and DB is angry since he clearly doesn't know the difference between honesty and being independent. He thought they taught him right. Apparently coach called Vanessa a tramp and he was wasting his time on her, well he'd know. Charlie was running at the time of the murder and Vanessa says she was in his room too and went for breakfast.
At breakfast when Barbara found out DB had been eating bacon and also Charlie had a girlfriend since he bought new clothes to impress, DB said she's a better detective than he is. He also refers to her as "Madame Poirot" at one point. He and Vanessa have dinner with them and Vanessa asks questions about the case which he can' discuss. She's a psychology grad. They've decided to move in together.
Henry has sex toys to process all from the coach's house. Which leads to some DNA belonging to an unknown woman. Brass interviews Burns's wife, Linda (Alexie Gilmore) who claims she was at their cabin and have been having marriage counselling. This leads to a club called 'The Iris' which Nick doesn't know anything about and to a 'Madame Z.' Obvious this was going to be Vanessa. Who says she's a registered sex therapist as are all the women here. That scene with Nick and DB when they arrive there was like one out of CSI:NY when Flack used to have the dubious pleasure of questioning suspects at such places. DB adding his friend is in need of discipline. Even name dropping Burns gets them nowhere so out came the IDs. Even if Vanessa is licensed her 'relationship' with Burns was still of a sexual nature which is not something that's meant to happen between client and therapist.
DB takes the glass which Vanessa drank from since the dishes haven't been done yet and takes it to check on her DNA. Which Finn tells him he's crossed the line since she got fired when she did the same thing. However he tells her the glass was his and Charlie's a suspect who would have been in jail if he wasn't his son. She's known Charlie since he was ten and doesn't believe he could kill anyone. So they go over the evidence again. Hodges has now narrowed down his possible items to a basketball and with Morgan's help they print various balls and bounce them on the floor but none of the patterns match, until Hodges thinks one of the patterns looks like a lace and recalls old fashioned basketballs used to have laces.
Linda tells Brass she lied since she found him in the showers and should have been honest. Brass: "To put a bullet in a guy's manhood good luck with that. You sure you don't want to call a lawyer now." Brass gets some of the best lines. Hodges finds the white substance on his forehead were teardrops and the tear analysis shows the tears were genuinely emotional since they had more traces of enzymes, proteins, lipids, electrolytes and lysozomes. Showing she had been there and cried over him. The only possible suspect left was the President and that was apparent. He killed Oxford to to make it look like Linda may have done it since she and Oxford were having an affair and the gun was hers. He wanted Burns to take on Oxford's son on the team even if he couldn't play but Burns refused so he killed him.
Charlie tells DB the programme is in trouble and people are going to various other schools, but he's staying put in Vegas. Also Vanessa dumped him. Barbara and DB have a quarrel over what he should be telling her since this is about their family but he says he can't share everything with her. She would like to know things that concern them. Don't know about you but I was actually bored with this episode. Sports again and more family issues. Would like to see some of the other cast getting personal storylines for a change. We've seen Barbara and DB and their two children thus far and know how their family functions and works so why keep dragging them back. Once again as in the case of his granddaughter being kidnapped DB works the case when his son is a suspect in a murder and yet back in It Was A Very Good year he had the same problem with Greg. Maybe he should have stepped back here too and let Finn et al handle it.
As for Vanessa once again we were heading into Lady Heather territory and it's not the first time we've come across hookers/therapists/girlfriends in such a role. Could we get something different and what did Vanessa see in Burns anyway? Hodges trying to get in good with DB by saying he doesn't believe Charlie did it.
There's no mention of Morgan and Hodges and their awkwardness last ep re the kiss and that hasn't been resolved either since Finn interrupted them last time so we don't know what's going on there. I've noticed since Jon Wellner was made a regular in the credits we haven't seen much of him.
Also Sara and teardrops analysis was done before in 3.11 Recipe for Murder where she found there are five different types of tears which include those of joy, sorrow, regret, allergies and fear. yet it took a while to find out what the substance was and for Hodges to give us another scientific lowdown on what this particular teardrop contained and meant.
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